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Not able to login through putty to droplet - I received connection refused error

Posted January 9, 2015

I created a new droplet in SG. Not able to login through putty. It says connectin refused and gets shut down. I tried to ssh from another unix nstance with ssh root@128.XXX.XXX.XXX I got “Connection Refused” error Please help me resolve as working through console is very pain ful

mattrindia

gndo • January 9, 2015

While logged in at the web console, run

 tail -f /var/log/auth.log

Then from Putty, try to log in. Note any error messages that have the IP address of where your Putty session originates from.

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FireDart • January 9, 2015

Is root Login enabled?

$ sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config
PermitRootLogin yes

$ sudo service ssh restart

It should be enabled on your first boot but maybe they changed it to deny. If it is that go ahead and enable it, make a new account (say john), add him to the sudo group & try to login with that account. If it works you can then disable root login.

mattrindia • January 9, 2015

I tried the Ubuntu set up steps ate: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/initial-server-setup-with-ubuntu-12-04 The error I am gettin gis: Connection closed by 128.XXXXXXX